Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.

No, I did not. To be honest, I really haven't followed the protests too much, but a lot of people on here seemed to support it. I was on the fence about it until I came across this, so now I'm not really sure what to think.

As I said, if you read the comments of that forum post, you will see that the OWS community overwhelmingly rejected it. There are some socialists among the OWS; the OWS is a very broad movement that spans across the political spectrum. The main goal of the OWS is to get corporate money out of politics, however, to reform our government so that the people have a voice again. There are many disagreements among the OWS people on goals like this, because the OWS is a very broad movement that attracts people from all ideologies; but they all agree that we have to fix our system.

Yeah, I did check out the comments, and it did seem quite a few people were calling bullshit on this.

Now this...

The main goal of the OWS is to get corporate money out of politics, however, to reform our government so that the people have a voice again.

...is something I can get behind.

However, the Tea Party originally had similar goals when they started, but I'm worried that the same thing will happen here. Having all kinds of people come in and change the goals and actions of the group.

Scary times we live in. Any attempt to bring some kind of accountability to those in power automatically means you're an "enemy" of